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We are living in a competitive world with respect to money. No one can survive in the money-making game without good knowledge of Banking, Foreign Exchange, Investment and Economics. It is not compulsory that you should sit down and study all text books, but a good understanding of the most common jargons used in all the above fields is an essential tool to learn about them.
Tholoor Mathew Thomas draws on his forty-five years of experience in the field of Banking, Foreign Exchange, and international capital markets to introduce the most commonly used jargons in these topics. This book is a wealth of information for students of finance, those looking for a career in Banking and Investments, Investment analysts, Portfolio managers, Bankers and any one interested in attaining a deeper knowledge of the financial world.
In the real world, people don’t make financial decisions based on text books alone. They make them at the dinner table or in a meeting room, where your own unique view of the world, market events, and odd incentives are scrambled together. Hence this book is a ready reference for those involved in the ever-changing world of finance.
Tholoor Mathew Thomas
Tholoor M. Thomas is a retired Investment professional and a banker with over 40 years of experience in investment management and banking. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) from the CFA Institute, USA. In addition, he is a graduate in Law and Science.
As an investment manager, he has managed an international multi-asset investment portfolio of significant size with assets in all major asset classes. He is well experienced in all aspects of Foreign Exchange management.
Thomas has previously written two books – “The Bull Run” and “Inside the Foreign Exchange Universe”. He has also written several articles on investments and financial subjects for key magazines and publications. Thomas has won several financial forecast competitions held by leading global financial institutions. He has rendered a commendable service to the CFA society in Bahrain. He is credited as the first user of the Bloomberg financial and information system in the whole of Middle East.
Having started his investment and banking career in the ‘70s, Thomas has seen the exponential growth of global capital markets. He has also seen how the global Forex market developed from a primitive stage to what it is now. In terms of global Fixed Income market, he has seen the explosion in the volume of international debt market. In the complicated Alternative Investment space, Thomas was an active participant in many of the assets which were introduced in the Alternative asset class.
